• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      27 days ago

      Top left is a thermal cycler. Basically it heats and cools samples at a given rate. This is primarily used for generic PCR, and certain enzymatic reactions. Top right is the fancier version of this, it is for qPCR, so it can do the heating and cooling and has a laser/detector for the dye or probe that reacts to generating more dna with each PCR cycle so you can quantify approximately how much of the target DNA you had.

      Bottom right is a luminex. This uses detection of fluorophore signals to measure multiple analyates, usually different proteins.

      Idk what bottom left is.